I think DX90 might be what people were expecting DX50 was supposed to be: DX100 SQ level for only easy to drive things like ciems, portable cans etc. DX100 has the power of desktop level products and you pay the cost with size, battery life etc. At the end, maybe people adored the sound but sold the product because it was not a complete "portable" dap.

This DAP will have the latest dac chips from Sabre, the ES9018K2M. Chips, in that it will have two. There will be a dual coreCPU for fast scan times and performance. Amplification is op amp based with output buffers, the BUF634. Same screen as the DX50 and UI, which will be very polished.

7 op amps and 2 buffers (BUF634).

Cost: Less than 500 dollars. ETA: Approximately March, not too far off.

DSD capable, coax out 24/192.

New Custom made jacks. Very high quality, with an extremely good grip on the plug and rated for over 10,000 uses.

Case, same as the DX50. This will be an extreme amount of power for digital decoding and sound in a very small package.

USB music and OTG support.

8gb internal storage, which for me is fine as I prefer to change my music out and having 64gb cards makes that easy and pretty cheap now.

I can only imagine this will be a very high performing DAP, obvious with iBasso's track record and hardware being used.

It would seem to have the same specs as the DX100 with a little less power since it will have the same basic case as the DX50. The run time will be around 9 to 11 hours. Plenty for day use for most I would guess. And since it will take USB charging, easy to charge up, oh, it is supposed to have USB for music as well. Now this will be a DAP.

Interesting that this is meant to be out this month, yet I can't find Ibasso
themselves making a reference to it anywhere.

It does actually exist doesn't it?

I'm with you , I wish they would say something. I went to their other website which is mini-audio and there is nothing there as well. They are being like Vsonic right now, they said they would have there new IEMs out in January and still nothing.